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I wear many hats - wife and mother are my favorites and top priority!
It's a daily balancing act trying to juggle them all. Most days, I drop a few hats...and some days, they get stepped on!
I long for the day I can keep them all in the air!

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Saturday, June 09, 2007

Cousins

I did a LO today! I haven't had a chance to create anything all week, even though I hoped to. It was just one of "those" weeks, and I had other things going on and honestly just wasn't in the mood to create. But that all changed today.

I was in a 5-supply kit swap at PPM in which we each sent to another 'player' the following:

1 sheet solid cardstock 2 sheets double sided pp 1 lettering ( either rub-ons, stickers, etc) 1 type of embellishment ( a yard of ribbon, buttons,stickers,etc) The challenge, when we received our kit, was to create a LO using ONLY those supplies.This was a bit of a challenge for me. It was very tempting to just add something else from my stash....but I played by the rules.

This is what I received:I Loved these papers! I believe they are by Wild Asparagus. (I know the letters are.)

I wasn't feeling quite as creative as I had hoped, so the first thing I did was find a sketch that I'd like to work with for inspiration. I chose one from here. It is the last sketch - the one that has an example LO following it.

Then I started looking through pictures to decide what to use. I chose pictures from last weekend of my kids with their cousin. I planned to print them in black and white because I figured I'd never find pictures to compliment the colors in the papers. But I forgot to switch them before printing, and to my surprise, the colors in the photos actually went well with the papers! So, this is what I came up with:And I have to say, I was quite happy with it until I wrote the info in on the bottom. My white Signo pen didn't seem to like the textured paper, and I'm really wishing I had just used a black pen. It just doesn't look right to me, but oh well...not much I can do about it now! And it just shows that I'm human and make mistakes!

There are a lot of buttons, but that's the only embellishment I could use, so I used them! I really wanted to cheat and add a flower until I remembered recently seeing others making flowers out of paper, so I used the patterned papers to do just that. (Since the paper was double sided, I actually had 4 patterns to work with, but only used 3.) Oh, and this picture doesn't do justice to the colors in these papers - they are so pretty in person!

This was a little 'out of the box' for me, but I had a lot of fun! And at least I got something done this week!

4 comments:

Oh, what a wonderful layout, Jennifer! Maybe it's just hard to tell in the photo, but I don't think your pen ruined the layout at all...and I love seeing handwriting on layouts. And I really love your flower! Beautiful work, as always!